Wednesday, September 5, 2007

<cite>Wired</cite>'s NextFest to Award Largest Space Prize Ever



The X Prize and Next Fest team up to offer the biggest X Prize ever, winner to be announced on September 13 in Los Angeles.





Source: http://www.wired.com

Sept. 4, 1888: Photography Leaps Into the Late 19th Century



George Eastman gets his patent for roll film and, suddenly, photography is at the fingertips -- or shutter finger -- of a waiting public.





Source: http://www.wired.com

Drug Test: Kicking Cocaine Addiction With ADHD Treatment



Scientists pay crack cocaine addicts to test an ADHD drug to treat their addiction. They're not sure it works, but we're pretty sure the volunteers are willing.





Source: http://www.wired.com

Planetary Imagery: 30 Years From Voyager Spacecraft



The Voyager probes are now the farthest manmade objects from Earth, continuing to relay data 30 years after their launch. We've assembled some of the more astonishing images the probes have captured in this retrospective slideshow.





Source: http://www.wired.com

Sept. 5, 1980: If You Can't Drive Over the Alps, Drive Through the Alps



It opens as the longest highway tunnel ever built, and traveling between Switzerland and Italy just got a lot easier. Sometimes, boring is good.





Source: http://www.wired.com

New Genome Map Shows We're More Diverse Than Scientists Thought



J. Craig Venter, genome scientist extraordinaire, takes his genome analysis to a new level of detail, showing humans are not 99.9 percent similar to each other as previously thought.




Source: http://www.wired.com

BCI - Brain to Control Games Directly, Maybe Vice Versa



Medical practitioners raise concerns about a new breed of videogame that would allow users to control gameplay using thoughts alone.




Source: http://www.wired.com